The Force Awakens bookmark designs for the new trio and the First Order trio! đ (omg this took a million belated years to post up, but theyâre all finally finished and together!!) â¨
Also where are the usual tumblr content aggregators who comb Twitter for posts and have tens of thousands of followers? I have ~1200 (about a third are inactive) and I can only disseminate information so much.
my local kroger decorated the whole store with hyper-patriotic nonsense in preparation for the fourth of july but they recently announced that they were closing the store and that every employee would be losing their jobs so the entire store is like a walk-in banksy exhibit where the standard âWe Support American Jobs!â signs are paired with these desolate shelves and hastily writted âEVERYTHING MUST GOâ signs
The Broadbent Institute has revived a petition to revoke the Safe Third Country Agreement with the USA.
Very basically the agreement says that the USA is a safe country for refugees and therefore refugees who land stateside before Canada must apply for entry in the USA first. (And visa versa for refugees arriving in Canada first.) Obviously that is not longer true.
Please sign. Petitions donât force the government to do anything, but it will give the NDP evidence to present to the Liberals that the Canadian public wants Trudeau to do something to help the people who are being incarcerated.
Contact Minister Hussen and your local MP and tell them to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement.
Minister Ahmed Hussen (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship) says that they are monitoring the situation to see the impact that itâs having, which is a meaningless excuse for their inaction and lack of condemnation. Justin Trudeau is saying itâs not his job to get political about this issue. We need to let them know that it is unacceptable that Canada has not formally condemned the USâs actions, and that our government can and must take meaningful steps to make Canada a safe refuge for those who are facing persecution in the States. You can read more on the Safe Third Country Agreement here.
we all know hypothetically about the horrors
of living in trumps america. weâve all seen the same stories, we know how
dangerous it is to be brown, that your whole life can fall down in an instant. we
know this. I thought I knew this more than most, with my boyfriend being mexican.
in the back of my mind Iâve had this anxiety for months, knowing what could
happen – and today it did.Â
we were stopped by what looked to  be a
cop car in what I thought was an ordinary police stop (scary enough already)
but it turned out to be anything but. behind the car were three  black vehicles with tinted windows, literally
like you see in the movies. me and my boyfriend are both fresh out of teenager years,
and there was just two of us against several armed government officers.Â
this was literally the single most terrifying experience of my life. they told
us to put our hands up and all I could think was that theyâre gonna tell him to
step out of the car, theyâre gonna kill him in front of me, and Iâm gonna have
to call his family and tell them that I saw their son die and that heâs never
coming home.Â
they laughed in my boyfriendâs face, asking several times for his name and
jiggling the door handle and held us for what felt, to me, like a small and
hellish eternity. Iâm sure most people can understand what a traffic stop can
be like as a brown person in america – i feel like i donât need to say much
more here and honestly just trying to describe everything that happens makes me
want to throw up so Iâm not going to.
eventually they let us go and somehow it only gets worse from there.
we found out that my boyfriendâs father had been picked up by ICE. we believe
at present that the point of the stop was to stop me and my boyfriend from
driving past the daycare down the road (where his father was dropping off his 3
yr old son at) so that we wouldnât be able to see what they were doing to his
dad. the fact that they know our schedules so well means they must have been
following us and watching us for a while. i would say that iâm paranoid except
that honestly, this is entirely justified.Â
currently, his dad is being held by ICE. because itâs immigration court, not
criminal court, he is not entitled to free legal representation. we need at
least $5000 for lawyer, not even including the bond. my boyfriend and I both
work but there is no way for us to be able to raise this kind of money on such
short notice. my boyfriend is basically in shock right now, as I think is very
reasonable, and this entire situation feels beyond hopeless. the only chance we
have of keeping his family together is through this lawyer, and through asking
for help from others.
i know you are all tired from everything you see on the news. i know that there
are many stories like ours. but please, this is ours. this is the man I love. this
is his father. this is our future together. I never thought this would actually
happen and it honestly still feels like a surreal nightmare but it has
happened, and we cannot get out of it ourselves.Â
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